Standing by the Ruins : Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon.

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Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of res...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Seigneurie, Ken
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Sujets:
1900-1999
Arabic literature > Lebanon > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Lebanon.
Popular culture > Lebanon.
Littérature libanaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Liban.
Culture populaire > Liban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Arabic literature
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Popular culture
Lebanon > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Lebanon
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Contents
  • Figures and plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on transliterations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Absence at the Heart of Yearning
  • Chapter 2 “Speak, Ruins!â€?
  • Chapter 3 Elegiac Humanism and Popular Politics
  • Conclusion: “Weâ€?re All Hezbollah Nowâ€?
  • Appendix: A Selected Bibliography of Lebanese War Novels
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index

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